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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.

Adam McKay

Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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