David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

When you screen it the first couple times, you're just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit. So you're doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it's working, and at that point, it's 50/50 as far as what's funny and what's working. Sometimes you'll put something in and it will just die so hard that it'll almost kill the movie.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.