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.
ADAM MCKAYAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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 one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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’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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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