Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

More Quotes by Dave McCary

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

When you go into pre-production on a movie, you can spend weeks and even months working on the nuances of the animatronics on the bear head. If we were to write a sketch about an animatronic bear on 'SNL,' we'd have to come up with every aspect of the suit within 24 hours.

I think I'm just a little, for a lack of a better word, primal in how I operate in all aspects of life.

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.

At 'SNL,' we don't have the luxury to perfect things. However a video turns out, that's what we have to present. There's a number of things that I'm super embarrassed by and wish didn't air.