To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Laughter is the best creative medicine.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.