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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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