33 Quotes by Theodore Melfi

My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.

Life is laughter.

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

I have a very strict philosophy that if you're not working out, you're getting fat.

I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.

I think the commercial world is a lateral step from features. Some people see it as a step down, but I've never understood that.

A Sunday matinee is a good time for families to go to a movie.

I can't stand toe-to-toe with Bill Murray. It's very hard, because just looking at Bill - he's 6'3", and he just stares at you, and you have no idea what's going on inside that mind of his.