There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAYI’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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“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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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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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