Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.