I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

People who can't afford their mortgages and have to renegotiate with the bank or something gets repossessed after you worked your whole life. You follow the rules and you do the right thing and you still get screwed. That's what I think a lot of Americans are.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.