You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV

Live and let live.Love thyself, in order to love thy man.Smart, independent women attract men.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

When you advertise fire extinguishers, open with the fire.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.