I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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