There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really there's no such thing as "too far." You're joining the politically correct when you use words like "too far." You don't want to join the army of politically correct.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.