Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Liberty does not mean freedom to do anything

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?