I Believe In Pulling Yourself Up By

I Used To Write Things For Friends. There Was This Girl I Had A Crush On, And She Had A Teacher She Didn't Like At School. I Had A Real Crush On Her, So Almost Every Day I Would Write Her A Little Short Story Where She Would Kill Him In A Different Way.

If I Had Free Time To Go To Los Angeles To Shoot A Movie, I Would Rather Spend It With My Kids.

If I Thought I Knew What Was Going To Happen, It Wouldn't Be Worth Doing. The Challenge Is How Joyfully, With What Sense Of Fun And Adventure And Playfulness, We Will Greet It. We Don't Have To Look For What The Next Thing Will Be. If Experience Is Any Judge, It'll Come Flowing Toward Us Like A River.

Improvisation In General Is Good, And Improvising Material Into Themes, Turning The Material Into Something Codified And Repeatable, Taught Me Scenic Structure And Dramatic Gambits That Work And Things That Are Appealing Both As A Performer And An Audience Member, Like You Know, What Does "want" Really Mean In A Scene, And How Do You Achieve Your Want, And How Is That Expressed, And How Do You Achieve Closure? Those Are All Things That I Learned Performing At The Cabaret After Just Doing The Same Scenes Over And Over And Over Again Over The Years, With My Own Ability To Change.

Writing And Producing The Show Is An Intellectual Process. Performing The Show Is Far More Athletic And Intuitive, Because You Don't Get To Do It Twice. It Helps If You've Done Whatever The Old Saw Is, 10,000 Hours Of It. Because I've Done 10,000 Hours Of Comedy, I Have This Database In My Mind Of What Works And What Doesn't Work.