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Adam McKay

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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Able Action Amazing Fan Film Giant Kind Love Movie
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
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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Bigs Hollywood Imagine
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Comedy Freedom Laugh Laughing Make Making Money
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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Dial Doing Finally First Funny Movie Point Screening Three Two Working
I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
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 think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Crazy Funeral Huge Laugh People
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
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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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve

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