You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

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.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.