The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here..

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stu….

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system..

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work..

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex..

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it..

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing..

You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody looks at you across the table and says, "What do….

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts..

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I'….

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get….