I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.