You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.
The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.
You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.