The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college.

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.