So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.