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.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

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.