I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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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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