The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?