I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.