Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.