If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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.

Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio