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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.

Adam McKay

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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.
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My 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.
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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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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 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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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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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