Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.