White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood 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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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