Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYBlanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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 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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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