They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that's very powerful and mythic. And you don't quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

Any good humor is sophomoric. 'Sophomoric' is the liberal word for funny.

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

We have classy things and sexy things. We like to look pretty no matter how big we get.

I'm going to try to be a better guy, a better man, better husband.

Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own “Kaizin”. Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components vastly different scale. If youve run deliriums course once or twice in your life try to imagine a version that never ends.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

If you can resist the impulse to claim each and every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear and disappear.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

I like to make my own mistakes.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'