I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

Humorists always sit at the children's table.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.