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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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The 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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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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