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.
ADAM MCKAYWe get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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