I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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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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