I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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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’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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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