I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.