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" Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. "

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" I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it. "

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" You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way. "

" I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment. "

" This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. "

" I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order. "

" One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him. "

" You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done. "

" I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors. "

" With 'Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I wanted to play a character who lives more in the real world, although yes, I grant you, he immediately encounters, um, turtles, of the teenage mutant ninja variety. "

" Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact. "

" When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh. "

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" Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. "

" Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love. "

" Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. "

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" Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure. "

" When David Cross and I made 'Todd Margaret,' we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome. "

" Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it. "

" I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination. "

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" My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. "