"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

I make a great part of my living by traveling and speaking. To me, it's like being a politician, you meet your audience, you constantly see the people and they're getting younger for me which is really, really encouraging. I get older and my audience gets younger. It couldn't be better.