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

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

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

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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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

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

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There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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