Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I want to try everything.

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.