History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.