In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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 get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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 easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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It 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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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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