When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

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

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.