The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I...
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I h...
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that w...
Die in a good way, obviously.
If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it.
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that sa...
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I jus...
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo...
I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like,...
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereoty...
Write your own part. It is the only way I’ve gotten anywhere.
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday'...
Soulmates is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.
STEVE CARELL IS NICE BUT IT IS SCARY It has been said many times, but it is true: Steve Carell is a very nice guy. His niceness manifests itself mostly in the fact that he never complains. You could s...
Haters are just more people paying attention to you. (P.21)
Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.