Life Is A Cruel, Horrible Joke And

I Was Born Imagining Myself With An Apron On, With Pies Cooling On The Window Sill And Babies Crying Upstairs. I Thought That All That Stuff Would Somehow Anchor Me To The Planet, That It Was The Weight I Needed To Keep From Just Flying Off Into Space.

The World Of Manic Depression Is A World Of Bad Judgment Calls.

There Are Women In Makeup And Hair And Wardrobe, But Not In Camera, Not In Sound, You Know, And Not In Special Effects. It's All Men.

Sometimes I Feel Like I've Got My Nose Pressed Up Against The Window Of A Bakery, Only I'm The Bread.

Tom Hanks Was Really Great [the 'burbs']. The Director, Joe Dante, Was Wonderful. We Filmed It Here During The Summer, Every Day At Universal. Even The Food Was Good - I Mean It Was Junk But It Was Really Good. The Whole Thing Was Like Some Ideal Summer-school Experience. It May Not Have Been The Best Movie Ever, But It Was Certainly The Most Fun.