Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.