Not Only Should We Laugh About Hitler.

I Have Been Lucky That Some Critics Joined The Mob In Loving Something I've Done, Or In Appreciating It. I've Been Lucky. But Most Of The Critics Don't Like What The People Like. I Think They Have A Very Strange Job, And They Are Meant To Criticize.

Every Human Being Has Hundreds Of Separate People Living Under His Skin.

When I'm Writing A Script, I Don't Worry About Plot As Much As I Do About People. I Get To Know The Main Characters - What They Need, What They Want, What They Should Do. That's What Gets The Story Going. You Can't Just Have Action, You've Got To Find Out What The Characters Want. And Then They Must Grow, They Must Go Somewhere.

You Cannot Have Fun With Anything That You Don't Love Or Admire Or Respect.

Everything Starts With Writing. And Then To Support Your Vision, Your Ideas, Your Philosophy, Your Jokes, Whatever, You've Gotta Perform Them And/or Direct Them, Or Sometimes Just Produce Them.