I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

People look at me and go, 'He's only successful because he's got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don't understand comedy.' Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one's more self-conscious about that than I am.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.