There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

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

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

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

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

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

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