He who hesitates is poor.

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

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.