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.

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

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

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.

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.