In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
ADAM MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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