Quotes

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

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.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

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

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.

We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

There's nothing more American than movies.

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

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

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

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

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

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

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.