...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.