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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.’

Adam McKay

Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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