Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."