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

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 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.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.