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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

There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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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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