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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.

Adam McKay

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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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All Having Powerful Vote
It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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