I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.
Rehearsals make a huge difference.
The New York Times made you or broke you.
My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.