In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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 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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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