“It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.”
“Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'”
“Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.”
“I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.”
“I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'”
“Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.”
“Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.”
“I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.”
“The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.”
“I just don't give off a great first impression.”