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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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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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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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