I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
ADAM MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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 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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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