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.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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