There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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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“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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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.
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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 got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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