I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

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

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

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

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine.