If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.

The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.