All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
ADAM MCKAYAs 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 got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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We 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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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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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