On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.