You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.