There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

I love writing family stories.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.