You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

The concept of endless love is something that we can exercise in all kinds of ways.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.""You should have" said the Doctor "everybody should.

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.