I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.