Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment.

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.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.