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

Adam McKay

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Audience Far Hate Listen Something
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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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
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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Anand Thakur
There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Always Control Pro Thing
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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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
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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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
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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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Able Care Fail Failing Having Improv
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking

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