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.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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