If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYCelebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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“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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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