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

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

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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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

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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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