Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYBlanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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 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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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