So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1 million channel universe?

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

I remember the Time review [on the Hit and Run]said that there wasn't one laugh in it. And I had watched the movie 50 times with audiences, and it always played great. There was certainly a moment where you could tell the audience was like, "Wow, this is really getting weird."

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

It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.

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