There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.

You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!