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

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

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

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.

I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.

I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.