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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Adam McKay

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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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money
When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Audience Country Economics Hollywood Issue Social
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
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.
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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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Thinking Tv Shows Years
So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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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.
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Bigs Hollywood Imagine
In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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