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“Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.”
“The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'”
“I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.”
“The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.”
“Success is for creeps.”
“I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.”
“I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.”
“Even when I was a kid - I was really young - I was drawn to comedy.”
“If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.'”
“I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.”
“My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.”
“People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'”
“I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.”
“I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.”
“The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.”
“Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.”
“I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren't aware of them.”
“My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.”
“If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.”
“As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.”