You Can't Not Have Feelings About Country

I Look For The Meaning In What's Funny, And I Look For What's Funny About Things That Are Meaningful To Me.

I Feel A Big Obligation To The Audience, Almost In A Moral Sense, To Say Something Useful. If I'm Going To Spend A Year Of My Life On These Things, I Want Something That I Feel That Strongly About.

I'm Sure That The Liability For Doing A Tracheotomy Would Be Tremendous. You Make One Mistake, And It's Over. Most Doctors Won't Even Do It.

I Try To Measure The Amount Of Truth In A Work Rather Than Just Looking At The Generic Distinction Between Comedy And Drama.

I Met Someone Who Said They'd Figured Out My Genre: "madcap Redemption Comedy." I'll Buy That.