Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes Bush look like a fool, you feel like you've done something significant. But really, what have you actually done? Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.