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Harry [shearer] And I Had An Idea To Do A Movie About Rock 'n' Roll From The Roadies' Perspective, From Backstage. Then Meat Loaf Came Out With A Movie Called Roadie And We Thought, "oh, We Can't Do That Now." So We Kind Of Discarded The Idea.

I Make The Joke, All The Time, That If You Have The Word "man" And A Number In The Title, Like Batman 2, Spider-man 2 Or Iron Man 12, You'll Get It Made. The Kind Of Movies I Make, Studios Don't Make Them. I've Made A Lot Of Movies, And At Castle Rock, We've Made 125 Movies. None Of Them Get Made At A Studio. I've Got To Scrounge Around For Money, Every Time. I Just Like To Tell Stories. I'm A Storyteller, So I Want The Most People To See It.

I Think There's Great Stuff On Television. I'm Hooked On All These Shows. I Love Watching These Shows.

I Was Certainly A Child Of The '60s, And I Came Out Of That Era, And As A Young Actor, I Got Cast As A Lot Of Counterculture Hippie Types.

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.