I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.