The best movies are simple.

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.