White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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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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