Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.