"The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length."

“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.”

“I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

“Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma...”

“Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.”

“'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role”

“Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.”

“I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.”

“Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.”