Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well.