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.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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