What's nice about a lot of Wes Anderson's films is that there's a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.

Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but it's just Australian Bill Cosby; or that's just British Bill Cosby; that's Pirate Bill Cosby.

At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they become an authority figure.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.