I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.