You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.