There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAYAnimals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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