I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I got my wife a mood ring. It works real good! When shes in a good mood it turns blue, but when shes in a bad mood theres a red mark across my forehead

Two things don't need to be "equally bad" to point out that they're both bad.

Build something with enduring value.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.