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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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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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