New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.