I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

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

I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.