“Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in H...” — Dean Jones Quote

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.

If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

I think the ultimate compliment that someone can give you is that you're a technician.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.