Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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 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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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