In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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.
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
