For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
ADAM MCKAYThere’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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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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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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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