I Like Writing Because You Can Make

Usually I Don't Like To Act In Movies That I Direct Because It's Kind Of Confusing.

The Script Is Like Music To Me. I Approach It Like It's A Musical Piece And I Hear How It's Supposed To Sound When People Say The Words. There's Rhythms And There's Intonations And Things, And So, When Somebody Comes In And Hits The Notes That I Hear, I Go Okay. Or, They Come Close Enough, And Then I'll Say "well How About You Try It Like This?" And If They Have A Good Ear And They Can Pick It Up, Then I Think Okay, They've Got It.

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.

Hollywood Is One Of Those Places Where, Traditionally, Money Has Come From - Along With New York, Texas, Florida, Silicon Valley In Northern California And The Unions. But Because Of The Internet And The Way Campaigns Are Financed These Days, You Don't Need Traditional Financing As Much As You Used To - And Barack Obama Has Tapped Into That In A Big Way. But At The End Of The Day, People In Hollywood Care More About [the Presidency] Than Just The Trappings Of It And The Surface Type Stuff. They Care About The Issues.

I Guess As I Get Older, I'm Kind Of Getting Drawn To The Things That I Really Love The Most, Which Is Trying To Figure Out Ways Of Blending Politics With Humor, And Making It Interesting. So I Don't Know If Anybody's Interested In This Stuff, But I Like It, So I Get Involved With It.