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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.

Adam McKay

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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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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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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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