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.
ADAM MCKAYYou 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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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 punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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