We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

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

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.