I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.