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.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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 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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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