If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYBenito 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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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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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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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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