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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.

Adam McKay

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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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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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