“The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.”

“I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for...”

“It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that t...”

“You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that,...”

“We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is qui...”

“All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's...”

“Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becomi...”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some...”