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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Adam McKay

I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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 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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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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