As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.