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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

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There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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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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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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

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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

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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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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

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

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I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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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 one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

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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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