I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.