Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.