Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAYIf you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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