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

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.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

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

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

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

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.