I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

It's pain that changes our lives.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a ­vibrancy to it 50 years from now.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.