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

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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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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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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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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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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

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

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

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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

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

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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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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 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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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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