Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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 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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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