You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.

I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.