I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.