I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

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.

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

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

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

We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off.

When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.