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.
ADAM MCKAYIt’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 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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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