I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.