I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.

Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!

If you get 'hot,' everyone's nice to you.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.

It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.

I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

In this business, you can come and go in a second.

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.

I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!