Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

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.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.