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

Adam McKay

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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Directors Favorite Filmmaker People Probably
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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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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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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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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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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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