The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day... Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office... But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn't know you could apply to fatherhood.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they're getting. I think it's more fun to watch something when you're discovering it as you go along.