As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the thing….

Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, tr….

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types..

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader..

My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'….

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life..

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities..

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are t….

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else..

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a mov….

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility..

Usually, I have in mind what I want to do. I shoot pretty economically, so I'm not shooting tons of stuff that I could change, all that much. I'll cu….

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure ano….

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration..

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever..

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows..

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful..

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously ….

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television..

I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff..

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera..