You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

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."

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.

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.