The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
ADAM MCKAYAnyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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 are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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