I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

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

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

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

I was a Political Science major.