If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
ADAM MCKAYWe get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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