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.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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