When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

It's never fun to read death threats.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

The stronger you become, the lower your voice become.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

After 'Muriel's Wedding, ' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.