Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

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

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

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.