I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

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.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

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

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.