I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.