Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

I say what other people won't.

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.