The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You can make ¡Three Amigos!, and some people will at the time say, "Oh, that's too silly." Then five years later, silly is hip. Now it's considered art. I never comment on anything I do, because if I say anything negative about X film, or X TV show, or X project, people who saw it and loved it go, "Well, am I an idiot?"

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

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.

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

No one is any one thing.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.