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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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