I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.