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.
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’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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