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 MCKAYEvery time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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 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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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