Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.