All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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