I love Brody Stevens. He's one of my favorite stand-ups.
I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
'Dinner' is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.
Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.
All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.
I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.
I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.
Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.
I love 'Seinfeld.' That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.
We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.
I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.
Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.
Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.
Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
