Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.