I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.