The four levels of comedy: make your friends laugh, make strangers laugh, get paid to make strangers laugh, and make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
A good comedy idea is like a good painting idea. You have a sense of how it should look, and you keep adjusting and readjusting.
I am a craftsman. But my craft changes the world.
Ultimately, even though it's a cliche, you really have to just write for yourself.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the written word.