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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.

Adam McKay

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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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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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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 one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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