If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

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've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.