Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.