“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

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.

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

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

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

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