The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.