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It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.
I think Jews are the smartest people in the world
I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.
For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.
The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.
Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.
You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.
If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.
I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.
I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.
It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.
I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.
I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.
I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.
To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Anytime a movie lasts, it's really a thrill. I mean, that people can still pick up on it, and still enjoy it, that makes you feel great.
I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.
I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.
I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'
We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.
The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.
I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.
When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.
I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.
I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'
I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.
I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.
If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.
They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We're always trying to catch up to them.
With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.
I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.