When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

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

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

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 love writing family stories.

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

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?