The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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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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