I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

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

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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

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.

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