You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

Take responsibility for the city

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.