This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.