Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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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.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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