I Love Coldplay. I Love Steely Dan

My First Writing Jobs Were Writing Tom Arnold Specials For Hbo, So I Love Working There.

People Like The Comedy More When They Care About The Characters.

That's Very Important To Me As Well: Presentation And How People Perceive You, The Visual Of How Things Look, Your Posture. I Learned That From [bob] Fosse And Jerome Robbins, From All The Great Theater Directors And The Busby Berkeleys. You Overdeliver: Visually, Emotionally.

'deadwood.' I Could Have Watched That Forever.

I Don't Really Get Attached To Anything. I'm Pretty Brutal About Cutting Stuff. With Each Successful Movie, I've Discovered Anything That's Not Connected To The Immediate Story Is Going To Be Cut Out Of It.