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.
ADAM MCKAYCelebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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