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.
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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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