One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."