"What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do."

"We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going."

"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."

"I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding."

"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things."

"When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like, and when you do, you have to front your position."

"My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor."

"I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

"What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great."

"You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies."

"Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood."

"Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre."

"After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?"

"I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do."

"I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious."

"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

"In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin."

"I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone."

"Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it."

"I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason."

"There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?"

"It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene."

"I love women. I mean, I'm married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble."

"I am self-centred. I just adore myself."

"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."

"I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich."

"I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world."

"People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a good time with them and you do stupid stuff with them. To me, that's life."

"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."

"Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story."

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

"I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say."

"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."

"I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end."

"Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone."

"Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool."

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."

"We're not meant for happiness, you and I."

"I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones."

"Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be."

"There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance."

"...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit."

"It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil."

"Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations."

"I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire."

"Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?"

"The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem."