I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.