Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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“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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