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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.

Adam McKay

In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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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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