“When you normalize war, and you normalize a kind of conduct in war that doesn’t really look at civilian harm, you end up in the kind of world wars...
“As Jeff Tweedy says, I just try and make things rather than destroy things. If you can finish your day having offered more flowers than you’ve...
“This show, The Big Picture, is animated by the fact that we both love movies—and also remember our lives, and mark our lives, by the movies.” ...
“Even in success, I’m realizing more and more that the outcome is so much less important to me than the day of doing the thing. That’s not goal...
“The moment of recognition between the writer and the reader is most beautiful when I’ve hit upon something for myself—and in doing so have...
“This book, Good Things, is a picture of me in this moment in time. It’s me sharing my love and value of the handmade. It’s a time capsule and a...
“I’ve been making comedy for ten years. There’s no substitute for experience. This new special, Galaxy Brain, is more polished. I practiced it, I...
“There are things I want to keep mining. I will work tirelessly to figure out what those missed opportunities are, or what deeper meaning we could...
“In term one, Trump had already had a pretty high appetite for risk. It is stratospheric in term two. In Regime Change, Jonathan and I wanted to...
“If you’re wanting to start your story with a character that isn’t traditional—someone who veers on the side of being an asshole—it’s your job to...
“What we risk here in Los Angeles is that people lose faith in the capacity of government to serve them. That’s what drives me in this work. It’s...
“In the 90s, there was a lot of focus on compartmentalization. This is the archetype of rock star. This is mom over here. You got your money...
“For me, more than just delivering a good performance, what matters is hearing somebody say, ‘I’ve never seen that before. I thought that was...
“Comedy is how we decorate reality. I think everyone can see what’s going on, but only through comedy can you take that blank canvas of a fact and...
“As the older generation, it’s our responsibility to believe in the future. If you don’t believe, then you stop working—and who suffers but children...
“Beef was the first time where I was like—ok, I’m just going to bare my soul. I’m going to not hold back. Luckily, when we took it out, the networks...