A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.