We laugh, that we may not cry.

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.