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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.

Adam McKay

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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.
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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 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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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