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.

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

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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

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

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.