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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.

Adam McKay

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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
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’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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by 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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