I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

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.

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.