Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAYIt 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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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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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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