As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

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.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

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.