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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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

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

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

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

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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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

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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film's not rolling. There's constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, "Why did my line count drop?" It's a nasty tense environment.

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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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