You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about ‘Platoon.’

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they’re going to change daily.

People ask me, ‘Did you always want to be on SNL?’ No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn’t even seem possible. It would’ve been like saying, ‘Hey, do you wanna go to the...

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, ‘We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!’

Before you get to ‘SNL,’ you have your own sensibility. And when you get to ‘SNL,’ it’s the show’s sensibility.

I’ve never met Charlie Sheen.

If a movie doesn’t even have financing yet, they’ll do a table read for it at a casting director’s office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is...

I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don’t have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it’s my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Pete Davidson – he’s in the movie ‘Trainwreck.’ He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

I tried to get people at ‘South Park’ into ‘Downton Abbey,’ and it didn’t work. I think they were like, ‘Downton Abbey?’ What?’ And I kinda made a big plea in the writer’s room, like,...

I saw ‘A Clockwork Orange’ when I was 11. When you watch ‘Clockwork Orange’ at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter.

I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got ‘SNL’ in 2005.

When ‘MacGruber’ came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I’m chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I...

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

If you can’t forgive yourself, you think you’re never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

A lot of times I think people, when they’re doing a movie that’s a family movie, they’re worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.

I don’t like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

I had a small part in ‘Pineapple Express.’

Sometimes you’re working with somebody, and you can tell they’re just waiting to say their line.

I was a production assistant in the post department on ‘The Surreal Life.’ And it’s been reported before that I was an assistant editor on ‘The Surreal Life.’ That is not true.

‘SNL’ is really hard to do when you’re single and living alone. And then it’s pretty tough when you’re married, because you don’t see your spouse.

I work a lot, and it’s kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It’s not like I’m looking at something and thinking: ‘South Park’ – how do I get on that?’ I...

I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn’t have any money.

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They’d be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I’d get.

To be totally honest? I don’t know if I’ll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m the impression guy.’ So you imagine the...

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

Even though it doesn’t look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod – the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape....

I get migraines a lot. I get them when I’m stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

The first time I ever acted was in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in high school, and my first line was, ‘I didn’t know Shakespeare had a sister.’

I’m the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with...

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in...

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that’s all I had done.

When people tell you what doesn’t work, they’re usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they’re usually wrong.

‘Vanity Fair’ did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who’ve worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I’d worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so,...

My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I’m sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He...

Every relationship is work.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I’ve read all of his books.

I can’t do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I’m the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I’ll just wade in it,...

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

I like watching Kate McKinnon do something – there’s a joy in seeing a new move from somebody and going, ‘Oh, she can do that.’

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

I’ve seen people who come to work say, ‘No, I’m doing it this way, and that’s that.’ I’m the opposite – I like being out of my element; it’s where I like to live.