"I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff."

"Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy."

"You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!"

"There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song."

"I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach."

"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."

"There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it."

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer."