Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys story.
You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.
This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton. . . remember, there is the face of Christ.
Where was the catch? 'Cause I knew one was coming.
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.