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

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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

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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 crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

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There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

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

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

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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

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

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

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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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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 think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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

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