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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Adam McKay

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
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Gotten Guy Hug Laugh Laughing Movie
“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
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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Anand Thakur
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
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
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
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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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
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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Artistic Heart History Lying Message Moment Played Thinking Well
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Able Care Fail Failing Having Improv
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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Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
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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Able Action Amazing Fan Film Giant Kind Love Movie
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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

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