It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
ADAM MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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