All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

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