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

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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

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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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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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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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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

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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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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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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

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

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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

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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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