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I Never, Ever Update Mark Twain. I Don't Modernize It. I Let The Audience Update The Material. When I Go Out On Stage, I'm Trying To Make The Audience Believe They're Looking At This Guy Who Died 104 Years Ago And Listening To Him And Saying To Themselves, "jesus, He Could Be Talking About Today." And That's The Point.

Man Is The Religious Animal. He Is The Only One That's Got True Religion, Several Of Them.

You Can Go Into Mark Twain's Material And Prove Anything You Want. He Was Against War. He Was For War. He Was Against Rich People And He Was For Them. He Was A Kaleidoscope

When The Audience Begins To See The Sunrise On That It's Hard For Them To Turn Away From It Because They're Listening To A Man Talking To Them From Over A Century Ago. And Nothing Has Changed. So What Are You Going To Do About That?

One Of The Problems With Putting Huck Finn Into A Movie Or On The Stage Is, You Always Make The White People Stupid And Racist. The Point Is, They Don't Know They're Racist.