Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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 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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