If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
ADAM MCKAYWhite-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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