I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

To actually be a part of a brand that you look up to, and a legendary one at that, is super dope.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.