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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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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.
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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.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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