Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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