There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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