You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
ADAM MCKAYDave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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