Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.
I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good. ' Hopefully it balances out.
I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.
I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.
I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.
When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
What I like about The Meddler style of movie is that it's a fairly lighthearted romantic comedy, but there are hidden moments where something happens that's unexpected, that hopefully have some kind of emotional resonance that you didn't see coming. I love when a film does that.
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld.
The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.
I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.