I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

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.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

True friends celebrate your success and share your grief!

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.