Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

I only direct in self-defense.

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.