It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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 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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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