Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.