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.
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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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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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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