My Sense Is, I Think It's Okay

There's Been An Amazing Backlash For The Last Decade In America: Political Correctness. In Many Ways, I Think That, While We've Been Remarkably Violent In Our Media, There's Been A Real Schizophrenia. In Private, On The Internet, And On Public-affairs Shows Or Talk Radio, We're Way More Explicit Than We've Ever Been. But Traditional Hollywood Has Been Much More Frightened Than It Ever Was In The '70s About Presenting Things That Could Be Perceived As Politically Incorrect.

The Real Trick For Me As A Director Is To Make Sure That People Don't Start Pushing Because The Harder You Push As A Perform The Less Funny It Becomes.

The Home Viewing Experience Is Slightly Different And There's Room For These Kinds Of Extra Excursions.

We Watch Movies About All Sorts Of Things That We Don't Know Anything About, But We Do Get Caught Up In The Human Drama.

It Seemed Like So Much Of Romantic Relationships Today Have To Do When The People Are Not In The Same Room. Whether It's Texting Or Emailing Or Facebooking, There's A Kind Of Distance Between The Participants. I Think It's Sort Of Shifted The Energy Of That First Romantic Meeting, Where It's Quicker, Perhaps More Desperate, More Energetic, In A Whole Different Way, And It's Resulted In A Situation Where People Seem To Be Sometimes More Comfortable Having A Sexual Relationship Than An Emotional One.