I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. - Steve Martin

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

... because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.