Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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