I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Hollywood is one of those places where, traditionally, money has come from - along with New York, Texas, Florida, Silicon Valley in northern California and the unions. But because of the Internet and the way campaigns are financed these days, you don't need traditional financing as much as you used to - and Barack Obama has tapped into that in a big way. But at the end of the day, people in Hollywood care more about [the presidency] than just the trappings of it and the surface type stuff. They care about the issues.

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.