I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

I am an only child. I have one sister.