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.

The more people’s money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it’s not my fault.

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?

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.

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

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

I feel like I’m the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I’m sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

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.

It’s such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.