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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.

Adam McKay

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAY

Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
ADAM MCKAY

Dial Doing Finally First Funny Movie Point Screening Three Two Working
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAY

Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
ADAM MCKAY

Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
ADAM MCKAY

Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
ADAM MCKAY

Corporation Create Definition Fascism Merging State
We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Day Information Much Really Tell
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAY

Gotten Guy Hug Laugh Laughing Movie
I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
ADAM MCKAY

Addict Animation Comedy Great People Want Understand
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
ADAM MCKAY

Cultural Elite Myself
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.
ADAM MCKAY

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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.
ADAM MCKAY

Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Care People Sense Talking
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
ADAM MCKAY

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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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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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