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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing great was ever achieved without 100% dedication, discipline and determination.

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

You never know what motivates you.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Man was created to complete the horse.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.