Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

It's all just a bit of fun ...

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

After 'Freaky Friday, ' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

I wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.

Don't allow the circumstances to stop you from pursuing your passion.

if someone always finds our mistakes then we must be happy to know that there, in the world, is at-least someone who is concentrating his mind and spending his time to make us flawless or perfect.

We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.