We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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 think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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