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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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.
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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.
As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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.
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.
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
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.