That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I learned that from [Bob] Fosse and Jerome Robbins, from all the great theater directors and the Busby Berkeleys. You overdeliver: visually, emotionally.

I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.

The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.