When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.