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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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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