You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Like anyone else there are days I feel beautiful and days I dont and when I dont I do something about it.

I have always been independent.

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends, friend’s are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.