However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.