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.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood 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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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.
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