And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

And we would always be looking for the light... together.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.