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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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 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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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