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

Adam McKay

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.
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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 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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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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.
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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.
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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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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