If Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely,

[c. Montgomery] Burns Is Much Purer Evil Than Nixon Was. I Think It's The Purity Of His Evil That Attracts Me As A Comic Character.

I Think In Most Cases, If You're With Good People, Comedy Creation Happens Faster In Collaboration. That's How I Can Tell If It's A Good Collaboration: If It's Faster Than Me By Myself, Then It Works. If It's Slower Than Me By Myself, Then I Get Out Of The Room.

If You're Going To Do Something That Lasts 90 Minutes, You Can't Really Do It With Stick Figures.

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 Guy.

Nixon's Genius Was That He Was Able To Portray Himself As The Toughest Of The Anti-communists, And Yet Run On A Platform That He Had A Plan To End The Vietnam War. And, Of Course, His Plan Was To Prolong It Until His Second Election - But He Didn't Tell Us That Then.