I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.