I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

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