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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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.
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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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