Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

America is a country of excess.

What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who say to their congregation, 'go home and talk about the religion at the kitchen table with your kids...talk about God, talk about what this is all about.' They say in general, come back on the weekend, we'll talk to you about it.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.