I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

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

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.