I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'