I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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 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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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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