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

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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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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've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

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

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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

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

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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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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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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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“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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We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

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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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