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.’
ADAM MCKAYThere’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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 all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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