Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards.

I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.

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

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.