Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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 don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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