Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

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.

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

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

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

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.