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.

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 just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a joke." Well, why should satire be in the service of humanizing these people who are supposed to be the target of our venom and vitriol? I think that's unseemly.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

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.

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

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.