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.

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.

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.

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.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

The beginning of greatness starts from permitting your mental positive imagination to expand without limitations.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.

If you can see it, you can have it.

To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.