I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I'm as conservative as they come.

Music is half the film.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.