You Never Know If Anything Is Going

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, Trying To Figure Out A Way To Make It Into Something That's Artistic That People Can Connect With.

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.

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 Fulfilling For Me.

The Movie Studios, They Only Like To Make - I Make A Joke, But It's True - If The Movie Has The Word "man" And A Number In The Title, They'll Make It. If It Doesn't Have That, It's An R-rated Raunchy Comedy, And That's It. Any Other Movie That You're Going To Make Is Going To Be An Independent One. So For Filmmakers Who Want To Do Something Other Than "man" And A Number, It's Either Independent Films Or Television, Which Is Like The Place For Real Creative Filmmakers To Go.

Albert [brooks] Was Rare In That He Could Make Adults Laugh. He Was A Prodigy. At Age 15 And 16, He Could Make My Dad Laugh Uncontrollably. And Whenever We Had Parties, Some Of The Funniest People Of My Generation - Whether It Was Billy Crystal Or Robin Williams Or John Belushi - Would Be Doing Shtick.