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

When you screen it the first couple times, you're just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit. So you're doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it's working, and at that point, it's 50/50 as far as what's funny and what's working. Sometimes you'll put something in and it will just die so hard that it'll almost kill the movie.

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

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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

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.

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