I happen to love George Clooney. Writes, acts, directs, produces, very attractive; he's everything a movie star should be. But he should be a little less. You know, leave one of those categories to the rest of us guys.

The Oscars is not the place for any kind of revolutionary act. We don't want to do something that feels cheap, like we totally gave up on doing something that makes us laugh, but if we're doing material that's political in nature, we want to make sure it's filtered through the world of movies, not just political for the sake of being political. We're trying to find that balance. It's all about being able to beat yourself up in a pure way.