I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

The whole thing with animated movies is that it’s very hard to get out of your head because it’s very moving through each line systematically.

In ‘Winter’s Bone,’ it’s literally the director and the camera operator. That’s it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I really liked John Candy in ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles.’ He was so good in that movie.

I’m always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o’clock when everybody’s at their prime.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Getting ‘SNL’ was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you’re in wardrobe, and then you’re just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you’re...

My parents were supportive. I didn’t have good grades, but they could tell I wasn’t lazy.

I never resented anybody for being successful.

There are some really funny women at ‘SNL,’ man.

In the U.S., it’s like, you start with a great script, and then on set – not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group – you go off, and you’re improvising on camera. So while...

I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on ‘SNL,’ and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio...

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

I’m very close to my sisters.

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

As far as post-‘SNL’ career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I’ll do it, you know?

Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I’m bad at loud restaurants.

My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, ‘Oh, I’m uncomfortable.’

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn’t even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn’t...

Seth Meyers and I wrote a ‘Spider-Man’ comic.

I remember being unbelievable bummed when ‘Freaks and Geeks’ was canceled.

There’s a movie called ‘Pod People’ that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.

It doesn’t occur to me that I don’t drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, ‘Oh, that’s what...

I started ‘SNL,’ and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that...

When you move to L.A. or New York, it’s easy to get a little lost and forget your original goal.

I’ve always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he’s doing.

I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn’t have as much comedy experience as other people at ‘SNL,’ and I kept thinking they were going to realize they’d made a mistake by hiring...