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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.

Adam McKay

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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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