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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.

Adam McKay

In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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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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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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