As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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 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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