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

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.

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.

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

I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me

The Dance

... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

Art is the absence of fear.

If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.

The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!