There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.

In my beginnings, those nos were ever-present-even today, those nos are ever-present-and it's the workaround. I always found a workaround for people who turned their back to me. It's a way of being persistent that makes them take notice.

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