What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

Your tongue, His name.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.