As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
ADAM MCKAYI’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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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 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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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