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

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

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

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.