There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.