Where's The Great Pay? Where's The Travel?

Films Are Big Hits When They Touch A Lot Of People. Things Are Not Funny In A Vacuum, They're Funny Because We Respond To Some Personal Dislocation, Some Embarrassment, Some Humiliation, Some Pain We've Suffered, Or Some Desire We Have.

Somebody Once Told Me That If You Laugh At A George Bush Joke, Or You Send An Email Cartoon To Your Friends That Makes Bush Look Like A Fool, You Feel Like You've Done Something Significant. But Really, What Have You Actually Done? Just Expressing Contempt For Your Leaders Doesn't Really Accomplish Anything.

My Only Conclusion About Structure Is That Nothing Works If You Don't Have Interesting Characters And A Good Story To Tell.

I Have No Trouble Selling Out—i’m A Benevolent Hack, In A Certain Way—but I Want To Pander For Something I Believe In.

I Think Satire Is A Luxury Of Literate Middle-class People. People Who Are Well Fed And Relatively Secure In Their Beds Can Laugh At Their Troubles. They Can Enjoy Sitcoms. For Those Who Aren't Quite So Lucky, Well, The Irony Might Be Lost On Them.