As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYIt’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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 don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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