Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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