You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

I am the me I choose to be.