It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
ADAM MCKAYMy mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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 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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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