My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

A true friend knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you forget the words

Imagination is a powerful magnet. The power of imagination

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Taking care of yourself is so important.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.