Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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