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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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