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

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.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

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 mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.