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Adam McKay

I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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