I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I believe rules are meant to be broken.

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.