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

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

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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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

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

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

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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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Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

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