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That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world.

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

I'd always loved radio.

[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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

I was a Political Science major.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."