Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAYThis 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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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’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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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