I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.