In Every Spoof I Make Real Love

The Twelve Chairs Is About The Same Thing. It's All About Money Or Love. We Know We Need Money, We Know We Have To Get Money, We Know We Have To Hurt Others To Get Money. But We Don't Know Until Maybe It's A Little Too Late In Life That Love Is The Most Important Thing. Love, Friendship, Affection, Bonhomie, Whatever. Those Are The Only Things That Really Count: To Love And Be Loved.

Well, You Know, 'spaceballs' Is A Weird Combination, Because It's A Simple, Sweet Little Fairytale, And It's Crazy And Out-there And Making Fun Of And Taking Apart Sci-fi, 'star Wars', And 'star Trek'.

The Thing Is To Be Brave And Move The Audience With You, Instead Of Cater To The Lowest Common Denominator, You Know, Slipping On A Banana Peel And Falling On Your Ass. You Got To Move The Audience A Little Further Ahead In Terms Of Their Appreciation Of What Is Comedy. It's Complicated.

You Often Hear That People Go Into Show Business To Find The Love They Never Had When They Were Children. Never Believe It! Every Comic And Most Of The Actors I Know Had A Childhood Full Of Love. Then They Grew Up And Found Out That In The Grown-up World, You Don't Get All That Love, You Just Get Your Share. So They Went Into Show Business To Recapture The Love They Had Known As Children When They Were The Center Of The Universe.

With The Birth Of The Artist Came The Inevitable Afterbirth... The Critic