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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.

Adam McKay

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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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
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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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
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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According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
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 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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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
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’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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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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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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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money

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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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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