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ADAM MCKAYHardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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