There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.