Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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