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

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

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

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.

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.