If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

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

I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their thing. I don't like to speak to them. I don't like to have lunch with them. I don't like to socialize with them. I don't like to hear their ideas.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.