As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not 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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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 foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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