If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?