It's tough to get up in your twenties, tougher in the thirties, your reflexes aren't as good in your forties, in the fifties you're really worried, in your sixties your legs hurt too much and I hit seventy.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I won't lie. I tried to lie to a girl about my age. She started laughing right in my face and said, "I know more about you than you do." That's not good.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

I've always believed in going after writers. I've been criticized for it to. I've turned down big stars for things and I've lost friends over it.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.