White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by 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.

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.