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.
ADAM MCKAYWe get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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If all else fails, 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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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