Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
ADAM MCKAYFor my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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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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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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