I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.