Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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 nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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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 think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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