I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...
If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me...
I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the...
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes...
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just...
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I...
If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was...
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
You may not like the humor but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
I think superheroes are heroes with flaws and in their flaws there is a...
Incongruity they say is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's...
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written Republican...
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They...