For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

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.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men.

All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.