Education Quote by David Steinberg

There is a quiet comedy in how unglamorous the origin story is. Steinberg drops the phrase "Chris Farley vehicle" like a shiny hood ornament, then punctures it with the flat admission: "The script was decent". That undercut is the tell. A comedian-director who knows how Hollywood mythology works also knows it needs to be deflated to sound true.

The New York-to-LA migration does a lot of subtextual work. New York is where you start things with swagger, taste, and the illusion of control; LA is where those ideas get stress-tested against community, craft, and industry reality. Steinberg isn't describing inspiration so much as describing calibration: the moment a project stops being "my script" and becomes an object that other people can improve, interrogate, or quietly dismantle. The decision to hand it to "new friends in film school" is strategic humility. Film school peers are blunt, low-stakes gatekeepers: smart enough to spot structural problems, not yet invested in protecting your feelings or your brand.

Calling it a "feature comedy" and emphasizing notes positions writing as iterative labor, not divine lightning. For a Farley project, that matters: Farley was pure force-of-nature performance, and a "vehicle" can easily become an empty chassis if the screenplay doesn't build ramps for that energy. Steinberg's intent reads like a practical lesson smuggled into an anecdote: comedy gets sold as personality, but it gets made through revision, peer critique, and the willingness to let the room rewrite your ego.