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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.

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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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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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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 could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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 grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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 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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