I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

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.

The 'right' may be wrong and the 'wrong' may be right in life!

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Do we use the Word of God only as a cue card to commandeer our external behavior?

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

Blame is the cowards way out.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.