I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.