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I Make The Joke, All The Time, That If You Have The Word "man" And A Number In The Title, Like Batman 2, Spider-man 2 Or Iron Man 12, You'll Get It Made. The Kind Of Movies I Make, Studios Don't Make Them. I've Made A Lot Of Movies, And At Castle Rock, We've Made 125 Movies. None Of Them Get Made At A Studio. I've Got To Scrounge Around For Money, Every Time. I Just Like To Tell Stories. I'm A Storyteller, So I Want The Most People To See It.

If You've Ever Made Up Something On The Spot And Made Somebody Laugh, You Can Credit Jonathan Winters With Inspiration.

The Script Is Like Music To Me. I Approach It Like It's A Musical Piece And I Hear How It's Supposed To Sound When People Say The Words. There's Rhythms And There's Intonations And Things, And So, When Somebody Comes In And Hits The Notes That I Hear, I Go Okay. Or, They Come Close Enough, And Then I'll Say "well How About You Try It Like This?" And If They Have A Good Ear And They Can Pick It Up, Then I Think Okay, They've Got It.

I'm A Huge Fan Of Jonathan Winters. He's Influenced Everyone Who's Ever Done Improvisational Comedy. You Look To Jonathan Winters For Inspiration. He Paved The Way.

Hollywood Is One Of Those Places Where, Traditionally, Money Has Come From - Along With New York, Texas, Florida, Silicon Valley In Northern California And The Unions. But Because Of The Internet And The Way Campaigns Are Financed These Days, You Don't Need Traditional Financing As Much As You Used To - And Barack Obama Has Tapped Into That In A Big Way. But At The End Of The Day, People In Hollywood Care More About [the Presidency] Than Just The Trappings Of It And The Surface Type Stuff. They Care About The Issues.