The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

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

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

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.

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

'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

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.

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.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

There's nothing more American than movies.

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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.

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

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?

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

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.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

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

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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.

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

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

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

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

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.

I love action movies.

Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.

Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

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.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

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

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.