Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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