I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.