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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Adam McKay

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Government Military Scary
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Billion Fact Industry Drive Obamacare Private Republican
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
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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Dial Doing Finally First Funny Movie Point Screening Three Two Working
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.
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Thinking Tv Shows Years
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro
I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
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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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money

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