It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.