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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.

Adam McKay

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
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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Anand Thakur
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
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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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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