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.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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