To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

It's one of those films that kind of defies the 10-second blurb,

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.