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.’
ADAM MCKAYHollywood 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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by 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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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