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

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

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.

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

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

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.