Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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“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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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 think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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