I Don't Want To Hurt People.

If You Are Leaping A Ravine, The Moment Of Takeoff Is A Bad Time For Considering Alternative Strategies... Do It In The 'closed' Mode. But The Moment The Action Is Over, Try To Return To The 'open' Mode... Because In That Mode We Are The Most Aware, Most Receptive, Most Creative, And Therefore At Our Most Intelligent.

Laughter Is A Force For Democracy.

Nerves Are Always A Big Problem For Me, Which Is Why I Loved Doing American Sitcoms. Because You Know When You Do The Take In Front Of The Audience That You're Going To Do It Again Afterwards. A Minute After You Finish, You Just Go And Do It Again. So, There's That Sort Of Safety Net. And Then If You Made A Little Mistake Or Two, They'll Go Pick It Up, So There's Nothing To Worry About.

This Is The Extraordinary Thing About Creativity: If Just You Keep Your Mind Resting Against The Subject In A Friendly But Persistent Way, Sooner Or Later You Will Get A Reward From Your Unconscious.

When You Do Comedy In Front Of An Audience, They Are The Ones Who Tell You Whether It's Funny Or Not And Which Bits Are Funny And Which Bits Need To Be Fixed.