I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.