I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

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.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

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

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.