The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

And we are put on earth a little space, so that we may learn to love for we can't do great things, only small things with great love.

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.