What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
