People love that monkey torture.

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

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

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.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

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 first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

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

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Alles wat ik van het leven weet maakte ik me buiten de muren van de school eigen, en zodra ik me binnen die muren bevond leek het of ik achterwaarts leefde.

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.