Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

I'm drawn to more than I'm allowed to do or asked to do, or probably should do. My whole career has been comedy, of a kind. I guess I've always existed in that world.

If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.

Comedy is king. It has to be.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

Bitterness leads to misery.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.