Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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