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 MCKAYNothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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