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.
ADAM MCKAYHardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive 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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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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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