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.
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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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