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

Adam McKay

I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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