I Didn't Want To Be A Director

Sometimes A Story Idea Will Come To Me, And Suddenly I've Figured Out The Whole Thing, And I Feel Like I'm Collaborating With Something Other Than Myself.

I Very Rarely Made Any Move To Direct Anything. I Didn't Have Any Faith In Myself.

A Lot Of The Turning Points Happen In High School And In College, And It Defines A Lot Of How You See The World And How You Decide To Defend Yourself From The World. Some People - Their Defense Mechanism Is, I'm Really Smart Or I'm Sexy Or I'm The Leader. And Other People - They Hide Or They Make Jokes.

The First Comedians I Became Fascinated With Were The Marx Brothers. I Couldn't Get Enough Of Them. Later In Life, I Thought, "well, Maybe It's Because They Were So Rebellious And They Were Just Flipping The Bird To Society And All The Rules We're Supposed To Follow." They Were Saying That None Of It Is Fair.

I Wrote For Roseanne. I Wrote Her Stand-up Act With Her. I Wrote With Tom Arnold. There Was A Period When I Was Working With Them Pretty Steadily. But I Would Take Brief Gigs Here And There.