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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.

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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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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 think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

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

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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. 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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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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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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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. 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. 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 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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There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. 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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There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

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

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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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

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