There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAYAs far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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