Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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 are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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.