That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.