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.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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Everyone 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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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