I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.