There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

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

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

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.