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My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.
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At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.
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Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.
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It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
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I want to be liked. Everybody wants to be liked.
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I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.
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In real life, a relationship takes a long time. Either somebody is involved with somebody else, and that's ending, or somebody's hung up on an ex, or your job isn't going right, and so you're focused more on that than relationships. It just takes a lot for two people to get together.
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A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.