I always used to sit next to Mel Blanc when we'd do the shows. When you have Jack Benny on one side and Mel Blanc on the other, you're not going to go far wrong.

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

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

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

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.

[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.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.