For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over..

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny..

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made..

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful..

Creative freedom is a huge carrot..

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort..

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care..

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article..

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro..

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds..

It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the….

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything..

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice..

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation..

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement..

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist..

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good..

Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back beh….

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth..

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous,….