You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

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

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

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

I love writing family stories.