There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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