People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

I want to manufacture a feud.

My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, "Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it's also going to be kinda awesome."

I just want to do cool stuff.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.