It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.