David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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