It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

I don’t like to watch my own movies–I fall asleep in my own movies.

Don’t talk it [shooting a scene] away, do it!

Some people say that drama is easy, and comedy is hard. Not true. I’ve been making comedies the last couple of years, and it’s nice. When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or you have to take a bite out of somebody’s face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

[interview in Chicago Sun Times, 1/8/98] I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they’re running the asylum. You’ve got to look at the whole studio structure.
There’s these guys. We call them suits. They have the power to okay a film. They’re like your parents, going, “We have the money”. But at the same time they say to us actors, “We love you. We can’t do without you”. You know, I’ve been around a long time. I’ve seen the suits run the asylum. I think I can do it as good or even better. Let me try it. That’s why I have TriBeCa.