The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring a thesis something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

I love movies that make me cry because they're tapping into a real emotion in me and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say I still love going to the movies but I don't sneak in anymore.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

After making several tragic movies in a row I was looking to do a comedy and one without cynicism.

January is the garbage can of movies in America directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.