We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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