For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.