Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting... and then rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite. Chris Gethard and I have been on the road a lot together. When we get on the bus at night, we talk about the jokes that didn't work and the joke possibilities that could work. I think this is a little different from other writers.

You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.