Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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