The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
From Adam McKay
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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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