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.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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