Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.