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.
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More Adam McKay Quotes
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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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.’
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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