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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 McKay

It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
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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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blazing Ever Funniest Made Movie Saddles
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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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 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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro

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.

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