The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

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

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

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.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.