People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

Joe gave me some more gravy.

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

Thought is invisible nature.