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.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

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

When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.

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.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.