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

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 was never into candy and games and clowns.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

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

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.