If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

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

I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.

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.

I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.