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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.

Adam McKay

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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