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" There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people. "

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" I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down. "

" It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?' "

" The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering. "

" I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats. "

" As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. "

" 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. "

" A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists. "

" I do idiosyncratic dramedies. "

" You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with. "

" 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. "

" You can come to a political position from an emotional place. "

" Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness. "

" To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them. "

" I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy. "

" It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view. "

" I feel like I know how to write plot. "

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

" I used to have a road-rage issue. "

" As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things. "

" My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. "

" My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat. "

" I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it! "

" I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird? "

" I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep. "

" You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you. "

" To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive. "

" There's a victory in letting go of your expectations. "

" What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show. "

" To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully. "

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