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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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Better Broke College Degree Grant Herself Job Mom Pell School State
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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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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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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