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

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I always give myself a little part in every movie.

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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

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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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

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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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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

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

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

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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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