Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.