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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Back seat only works if you have a great driver!!! Either hire the right one or take charge and drive!!!!!

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.