Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
ADAM MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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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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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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