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.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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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.
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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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