We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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’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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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