Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

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

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home."

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

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.

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