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.
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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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