Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.