I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.

Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don’t want to be an actor who directs, I...

I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I think, frankly, that I’m a better director than I was an actor.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Love is a kind of warfare.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Oh man. If I had magic powers… I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

Whatever art form you’re working in, it’s crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

I’d always hoped to work with Tim Burton.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

I don’t like to move the camera that much anyway.

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn’t get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch...

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that’s more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

What happens if you’re the guy who’s been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become...

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental...

I wasn’t really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It’s everywhere.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn’t...

I’m disappointed because you put your time and energy into a certain character or a project and the product and you just never know.

I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I’m what you call a deathbed Catholic.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn’t tell him the...

It’s better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.