I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
ADAM MCKAYEveryone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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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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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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 are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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