There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
ADAM MCKAYAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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 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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