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.

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

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.

I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.