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.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

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

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.