Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

You have not lost if you have learned one new lesson.You have not lost if you have helped one new person.You have not lost if you have overcome one new obstacle.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Nothing is far from God.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.