Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
ADAM MCKAYAny time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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