I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.