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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.

Adam McKay

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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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
“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
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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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Assault Completely Country Doubt Dumb Movie Silly Sophisticated Speak Subversive
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
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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Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
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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Addict Animation Comedy Great People Want Understand
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
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
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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Bigs Hollywood Imagine
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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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
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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Corporation Country Crush Government Lobbyist Media Purchase Running

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