I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.