“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

You get the soul of the person making it.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

Making an idea into an emotion.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn’t have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.