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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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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 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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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“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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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