If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

And now for something completely different...

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.