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Adam McKay

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
ADAM MCKAY

Action Critic Following Movie Outdated Savage Special Weekend
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Anything Governing Grossest Immediately m Part Political Population Reek Worst
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
ADAM MCKAY

Aspect Directing Mind People Place
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
ADAM MCKAY

Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
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
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
ADAM MCKAY

Better Do Ferrel Just Time Voice Wrote
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

Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
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
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAY

Funny Man never Old Phone
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Audience Country Economics Hollywood Issue Social
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.
ADAM MCKAY

Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
ADAM MCKAY

Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
ADAM MCKAY

Almost Die Hard Kill Movie Put Something
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
ADAM MCKAY

Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive

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