The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.