“I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.”

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.

There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.

In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.