The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

The best an idea gets is when its in your head.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.