In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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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’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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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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