At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.