Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

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

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.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.