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.
ADAM MCKAYWhen 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 grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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