Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.
I don't know what goes on behind my back. . . I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.
U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.