There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.