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

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

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.

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

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?

I love writing family stories.