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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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