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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Adam McKay

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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
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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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

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