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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.

Adam McKay

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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
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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Anand Thakur
Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro
I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
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
For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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Care People Sense Talking
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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