Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealin….

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 c….

I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are s….

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches..

Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when y….

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.….

I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then w….

We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've bo….

You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in….

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

I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, ….

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 sho….

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 pl….

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….

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….

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 ….

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be..