You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television..

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emot….

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the g….

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in t….

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years..

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in..

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures..

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later..

I was never into candy and games and clowns..

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh.".

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The….

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waki….

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years ….

I was a Political Science major..

I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a jok….

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy….

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometim….

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg..

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of….

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it m….