It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

I love the role of Ripley.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.