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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

Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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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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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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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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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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“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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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 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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