If Nixon Were A Republican Senator Today,

Satire Is An Art Best Practiced Behind The Back Of The Intended Target. I Think Inviting Politicians On A Satirical Show Becomes A Very Big Trap. Because One Of Two Things Happen: Either You Have To Kind Of Unsharpen Your Fangs Because You Can't Be Quite As Cruel To People To Their Face As You Are Behind Their Backs... Or You Don't Defang, And Those Guests Get The Word And They Stop Coming.

The Act Of Getting Married, Stripped Of The Necessity To Have A Secure Setting To Raise Children, Seems To Me No Less Grim Than Registering Your Emotions With The Government.

The Theater Business Is Very Much About "hey, If You Want Our Big Blockbuster At Christmas Time, You'll Play Our Piece Of Crap In April."

There Were Really Funny Characteristics About This Guy [richard Nixon], Chief Of Which Would Be That He Seemed To Devote About 85 Percent Of His Waking Energy To Suppressing Any Sign Of His Emotional Response To Anything That Was Going On Around Him, And The Other 15 Percent Blurting Out Those Authentic Responses In The Silliest And Most Inopportune Ways. And He Had These Smiles That Would Come At The Most Inappropriate Times - Just Flashes That There Was An Inner Life Screaming To Get Out.

Well I Directed A Few Feature Length Things For Hbo In The Late Eighties.