Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
ADAM MCKAYWe 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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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