The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYNormally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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