My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.