The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.