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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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 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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.

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

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

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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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“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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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.

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

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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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

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

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

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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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