The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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