I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.