Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I don't want to create responsible shows with lawyers in them. I want to invade people's dreams.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.