Interview

“I remember very clearly getting my first period, which, for the record, was on Yom Kippur at my grandmother’s house.”

“I made a living in the ’60s doing anything you could do attached to show business.”

“Even though he’s a dorky wannabe stepdad, Bob is also a guy who isn’t overwhelmed by a terrifying reality.”

And the jump from micro-budget indie films to Netflix’s hit crime drama.

And he’s using machine learning to help write songs.

The Mistress of the Dark on ending her Knott’s Scary Farm show, that “super uncomfortable” costume, and the goth mansion she sold to Brad Pitt.

And why there’s “a very good reason” to be suspicious about Dr. Owen.

“Heather is way more emotionally intelligent than I am.”

“If people wanted to call me comely, it helped with awareness. Hugely.”

“We were crying the whole f*cking day. We were crying our eyes out. It was so intense.”

“If you’re trying to live to some degree honestly, there is always an existential crisis around the corner.”

“I thought we were doing ‘I Am the Walrus,’ but I got there and it was ‘Come Together.’ And then, yeah, I’d had a lot to drink as well.”

His favorite is “Harold, they’re lesbians.”

“It’s fun — and if people are getting pleasure out of it, then cool.”

Matt Zoller Seitz talks to Patton Oswalt about loss, life, and comedy.

“The thing about Joe is that he loses. He’s a failure.”

And why 30 Rock never made Jack Donaghy one.

Larry David first heard it in a random bank commercial.

“It’s not a hearing at the Hague. It’s a game show meant to entertain. So why not have fun?”

“There’s a kind of intimacy and love that you feel at some deep, very primal level.”