If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.
Always start where the energy is.
Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.