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I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

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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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There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

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As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

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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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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. 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. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.

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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

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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 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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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

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We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

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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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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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