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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.

Adam McKay

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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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