If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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