Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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