I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.