There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.