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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

Adam McKay

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
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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All Having Powerful Vote
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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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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
“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
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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Director Hollywood Liberal Make Musician People Skews
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.
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Care People Sense Talking
I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
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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Able Action Amazing Fan Film Giant Kind Love Movie
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Billion Fact Industry Drive Obamacare Private Republican
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
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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Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
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
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money
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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Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Carrots Creative Creative Freedom
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
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
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages

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