We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

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.

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

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.

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

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.