What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

I don't look like no kiwi bird

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.