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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Adam McKay

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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Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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 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 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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

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