Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose.

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.