The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

I really feed off of The Walking Dead.