Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.