I'm a believer in trusting the director.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

I do not have very much office experience.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.