All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

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.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.