As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.

I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a ­vibrancy to it 50 years from now.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.