Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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 just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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This 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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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.
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