I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.