I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.