“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.”
J. D. Salinger
“We are no longer the knights who say ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!”
Monty Python
“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music”
Frank Capra
“I liked the idea of beginning our movie with death, the place most movies end,”
Cameron Crowe
“At the end of the movie I gave Bob Newhart a headshot of mine with tape over the eyes. So that he'd remember, and be fond of the tape,”
Will Ferrell
“Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.' ”
“I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.”