I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.