Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.
I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.
I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.
Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.
Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
