I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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.

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.