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.

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

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

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.

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.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian

Do one thing well. It's enough.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.