You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

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

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

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

When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.