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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

Adam McKay

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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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 don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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 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 a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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