You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.