Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us 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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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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