There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.