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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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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 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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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