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" People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. "

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" I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change. "

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" Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. "

" I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas. "

" I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder. "

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" I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions. "

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" It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations. "