Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAYBenito 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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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’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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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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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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