Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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