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.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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 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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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