“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
ADAM MCKAYIt so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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 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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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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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