Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Fear usually benefits the feared

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.