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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.

Adam McKay

There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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Government Military Scary
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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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