Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.