A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'
I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.
A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
I love comedians. They're my community.
I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.
Life is full of horrible mistakes.
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.
It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.
I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
Everything that people say is testable.
If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.
