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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

As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
“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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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.

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