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

Adam McKay

I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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