Germany’s amongst my top three places in the world I’d like to live.
New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in ‘Pinocchio.’
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.
I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.
When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you’re setting out to make. That’s all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you’re doing.
I’m a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.
If you’re trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you’re trying to have a normal conversation, you’ve got to have a normal conversation. If you’re trying to make them sad, you’ve got to make them sad. I think that’s how you get real performances out of people.
It wasn’t like, ‘I’ma lose weight and start doing dramas.’ I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight – it’s just about being healthy and feeling good.
I like when you can have a conversation with people and it’s not just stock questions.
I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor’s dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.
Jump Street merging with MiB I think that’s clean and rad and powerful.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest – things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn’t become skilled at.
Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don’t understand them.
Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.
In the comedies I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow’s, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
As a writer, I haven’t delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.
The drama thing was something I’ve always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.
I’m a different actor than you thought I was. Don’t put me in a box. I’m not just some kid running around screaming curse words.
It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.