You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
ADAM MCKAYAnimals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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