I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I hate children! I hate them all!

I see somebody dying, I pick him up.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.