I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.