I love writing family stories.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.