People Can Be Ignorant And Still Have

I'm A Huge Fan Of Jonathan Winters. He's Influenced Everyone Who's Ever Done Improvisational Comedy. You Look To Jonathan Winters For Inspiration. He Paved The Way.

I Make The Joke, All The Time, That If You Have The Word "man" And A Number In The Title, Like Batman 2, Spider-man 2 Or Iron Man 12, You'll Get It Made. The Kind Of Movies I Make, Studios Don't Make Them. I've Made A Lot Of Movies, And At Castle Rock, We've Made 125 Movies. None Of Them Get Made At A Studio. I've Got To Scrounge Around For Money, Every Time. I Just Like To Tell Stories. I'm A Storyteller, So I Want The Most People To See It.

I Guess As I Get Older, I'm Kind Of Getting Drawn To The Things That I Really Love The Most, Which Is Trying To Figure Out Ways Of Blending Politics With Humor, And Making It Interesting. So I Don't Know If Anybody's Interested In This Stuff, But I Like It, So I Get Involved With It.

Hollywood Is One Of Those Places Where, Traditionally, Money Has Come From - Along With New York, Texas, Florida, Silicon Valley In Northern California And The Unions. But Because Of The Internet And The Way Campaigns Are Financed These Days, You Don't Need Traditional Financing As Much As You Used To - And Barack Obama Has Tapped Into That In A Big Way. But At The End Of The Day, People In Hollywood Care More About [the Presidency] Than Just The Trappings Of It And The Surface Type Stuff. They Care About The Issues.

I've Known Alan Zweibel Since 1975, And I've Always Had This Sneaking Suspicion That He Might Possess A Sense Of Humor. After Reading Clothing Optional, I'm Almost Sure He Does.