I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.