We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

Falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts.

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

I really like my eyes, nose, and lips. I especially like my nose. I really like my lips too. I think my lips are sexy.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.