“Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.”

For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.

I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.

Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’

Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.

I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.