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.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

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.

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