I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.