You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.