Barry Sonnenfeld American Producer Quotations

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

I don't believe in aliens living on planets as such, but I do believe there's stuff going on in this room that none of us have any idea about.

We live in the country. Occasionally I hear sounds at night, so naturally I send my wife downstairs to check it out whilst I hide in the cupboard.

Michael still agreed to be in it as long as he could wear a black suit-that's all that mattered to him. It was very funny and entirely Michael's idea.

Will asked me if his two kids could be in the movie, so I put them in a scene towards the end where Will, Tommy, and Rosario are in Manhattan.

We had to retain the sense that no one really knows what's going on, that in New York City, in the world, there are aliens, strange events.