When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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’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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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