But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
We rest our case on the production numbers.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
He who hesitates is poor.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
I only direct in self-defense.
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.