I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things.

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.