“A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.”

Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

Mad About You’ was very fun.

The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.

It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.

I wish I was better looking.

I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero’s role.