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Adam McKay

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
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
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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Directors Favorite Filmmaker People Probably
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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Government Military Scary
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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