I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

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

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

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.

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!