If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.