The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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