Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

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.

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