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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.

Adam McKay

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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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