Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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 always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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 easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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