You Know When Jerry Ford Gets The

You Have To Imbue The Characters With Their Own Sort Of Feeling Of Justification And Morality. Everyone Has That, Whether We See Them As Evil Or Not. So I Try To Bring The Characters To Life By Making Them Likable Or Lovable, In The Sense That They Can Be, At Least To Themselves.

If The Audience Doesn't Like It, Usually They're Just Silent. But They've Never All Walked Out At Once.

Humor Is Very Very Risky, Particularly For A Candidate, Unless He's Been In So Long That It Just Doesn't Matter, And He's Not Running For President. But It's Just That People Are So Sensitive And So Touchy, And You're Just Going To Upset Somebody Without Ever Realizing It.

I Do Jokes About What's Funny, And Both Sides Are Funny.

I Think You Can't Write With Anger. I Think It Always Has To Be With A Wink. There Always Has To Be An Element Of Hope In What You Write. Otherwise You're Just Getting Mad And It's Not Going To Be Fun For Anybody.