If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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.

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

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

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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

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.