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Hollywood 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.

Adam McKay

Hollywood 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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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Hollywood 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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