Quotes

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Sequels are desperate.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

I love Paul Rudd.

My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'