Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

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.

If we believed in the blessed Saviour, we shall be saved.

You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

A picture is like a prayer.

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.