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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 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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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