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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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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

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I always give myself a little part in every movie.

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

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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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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 got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

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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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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

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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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