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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.

Adam McKay

The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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 want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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