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I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up a city, and there's a portal opening up, and they have to close it... I wanted to have a climactic scene that subverted those familiar ideas.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.