The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.
I like to make pasta with puttanesca sauce and arugula salad.
We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
I do make films for personal reasons.
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
Mood-aware technologies would make personalized recommendations and encourage people to do things differently, better, or faster.
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
Peeves do not make very good pets.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
