Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
ADAM MCKAYObamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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