I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

The rules are very important in a horror movie.