I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.

I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. I think it's for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it's to a fault. I think it's for outsiders.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.