As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

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

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."