First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

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.

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

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.

Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer

We feel that we don't have luck with us and everybody does at a particular moment of time. Whereas, when we do, we forget to notice that the others don't.

If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!

Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

I love you, too." But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now. Loving you has never been the problem. What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.