The Problem We Have Right

With Someone Like Barack Obama, I Think The Whole America, The Whole World Will Coalesce. Every Election Is About Change, And Change Takes A Long Time Because There Are Big Issues That Can't Be Changed Overnight. But The One Thing That Will Change Dramatically Is How We're Viewed Around The World. Once Obama Is In There, The World Will View Americans In An Entirely Different Light. And That, To Me, Is A Good Thing.

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.

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.

When You Do Improv, You're Everything. You're A Performer, Writer, And Director, Because You're Moving The Scene In The Direction You Want It To Go, You're Making It Up As You Go, And You're Acting It. You're All Of Those Things, So I Always Viewed Myself That Way. And 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 Another Actor Can Do Them.

I Hate Those Movies Where Hundreds Of People Get Blown Up And There Are Jokes Afterward. They Poison The Soul.