Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.