When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.