“Run your own race, follow your own path. Don’t worry about what other people are doing, and especially now, ‘These kids, they’re doing that.’ And don’t get worried about, ‘Oh, what’s this guy doing?’ Or, ‘What are these people doing?’...
“What is a successful writer? I always describe it as like, when you’re sitting there with your fingers on the keyboard, you’re looking at the screen, you’re in that world, the voices are in your head. It’s playing out and, and you got...
“ You have to ask these five questions before you get into partnership with anyone on anything significant. Do I like this person? Do I trust this person? Do they do what they say they’re gonna do? Do they finish what they start and have they already...
“I met Joan Rivers, and Joan encouraged me to go to New York. I was not really ready. I did move to New York, and I took my page of jokes that I wrote for Joan, and I went to Rollins and Joffe, the people who promoted Robert Klein and other great people. And...
“I get a call from my agent. He’s like, Leonard DiCaprio’s manager just read the script. She loves it. She’s giving it to Leo. And then I’m getting a call, like, okay, he’s gonna read it tomorrow. Then I get a call the next day, he...
