In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.
Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.
Bottom line nothing of note happened when I was a youngster, really. I went to Princeton, which is where I met my wife.
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.
Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.
When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.
'Chernobyl' is a human story. It's not a disaster movie. It's not about explosions. It's about people and truths and lies.
I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.
Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn't always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.