We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
ADAM MCKAY“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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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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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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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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