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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

Adam McKay

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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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The 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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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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 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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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