The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.