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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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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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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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