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

Adam McKay

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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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