On whether he made movies when he was a kid:

"I never really made movies. I did little plays, little performances but never on film, that was never my medium. I had a tape recorder. I did a lot of radio plays. But yeah, it reminded me of childhood, very much, that pretending."

Will his audience like Be Kind Rewind?

"I think my audience will be into this, I think they will. I think they will appreciate my shenanigans. That’s what I do and I think I did my thing pretty strong. But this is more of a creative and fun world that he has made around my character than - Oh God, this is not a good sentence, it never ends."

On why he's made so many animated movies:

"They almost don’t even count when you’re doing them, they’re so easy. You don’t have to get in make-up, you don’t have to wake up early, you go to work once a month and you can do your voice anywhere in the world, you can go into some recording studio. It is THE best job. It’s my favorite job and the only thing is that I will have to promote it like crazy."

About his next animated character:

"It’s Kung Fu Panda, and he talks. It’s an alternate universe where animals can talk..."

Jack Black and his opinion of the film and music industries and the writers' strike:

"I don’t have a take on it. That’s for the money people to figure out - how to make money. My job stays the same just trying to write songs and act in funny movies. That stuff is hard. As far as the writer’s strike, of course I support the writers."

On whether the strike affects his latest project:

"I’m going to do a movie and it will affect that movie. I’ve never made a film that you didn’t get new pages every week. It’s an ongoing process. It’s called Year One. It’s a biblical comedy with Harold Ramis directing and writing. So we’re going to have to stick with the original script, The Torah. We’re not going to be able to change any of the words - no rewrites."

On his character in Year One:

"I’m playing just a guy. Not a famous character from the Bible, and I’m wandering through biblical times. I go through Adam and Eve times, Cain and Abel, Abraham, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Is it Sodom AND Gomorrah?"

How he balances various aspects of his creativity:

"Well, music has taken a backseat lately. I’ve been working a lot more on movies. Yeah, I gotta try and incorporate music into the movies, that’s how I get both of them. You know, if there’s an actor’s strike coming up, I’m sure we’ll be writing a lot of songs."

Jack Black on the next Tenacious D album:

"Well, like I said, we have 'Death Star', that’s going to be a hit but we need to surround it with 13 more equally powerful songs. So around 2012 I think you’ll see another album [laughs]."