I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.
I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.
I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.
My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.
You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.
You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.
God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.
