I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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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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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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