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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.

Adam McKay

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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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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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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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