It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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