Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYI would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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 grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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“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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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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 got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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