Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAYCreative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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 easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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