There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.