"I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately."

"Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys."

"The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes."

"I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me."

"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"I'm religiously opposed to religion."

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."