Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

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

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.

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.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.