It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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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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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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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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