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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.

Adam McKay

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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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