"When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet."

"I love 'The Office' format so much that I wanted to close it out."

"When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there's no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character."

"I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while."

"They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive."