If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

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

Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.