I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen..

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy..

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the sam….

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people..

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities..

I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a ru….

I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of….

Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it ….

You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're ….

The only way you survive on all these services is if you're groundbreaking. There's pressure to be groundbreaking, which is the greatest thing that's….

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation..

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed..

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make mone….

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget….

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential..

I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will sti….

I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are ….

I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, "Take chances! Stretch!"….

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school..

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to….

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day..